FINALLY hiking and apple pie in Julian

I know it's been awhile since i've posted anything...but really my life has been pretty boring.

I have been wanting to go to Julian ever since I heard of what it is. Christine invited me to go with her, her friend from work and all of her dodgeball (yes dodgeball) friends to go hiking in Julian. I was like, hell yeah i wanna go.

First off, let's discuss this dodgeball thing. they play at a rec center in OB and it's an actual league. So me, being very curious about this, asks one of the guys if you play like in the movie. He said that they have 4 girls and 4 guys on a court and it's pretty much the same. I think that is the coolest thing. On the hike back up the mountain, one of the guys asked if c and i were going to play with them. c was like, um no. and of course i was like, well if you need any more girls you just let me know. how cool is that...i may become a dodgeball player! then i can be hot like christine taylor. =)

ok, sidetracked already.

all the people going hiking met at crown point around 9 to hop in each others cars and whatnot. there was a big group of us....12 i think. so we piled in cars and drove out east. once we hit the julian area, we started on this dirt road and it was winding and it seemed like it had no end. c and i were like, where the fuck are we going? and the reason we say this is because we're driving on winding roads with a gazillion feet drops right next to us. those mountains back there are pretty big. but we finally reach our destination on the middle of a mountain.

we hop out and start on the trial down the mountain. people were freaking speed-hikers. i thought you were supposed to enjoy the experience not fucking race. but nonetheless...the way down was fun.

let me explain what these mountains look like. brown and rocky.

ok now that i have that out of the way, we go left in the fork in the trail and we hit water. i'm thinking, where the fuck did this come from? low and behold, i was at the top of a waterfall. it was freaking weird looking STRAIGHT down to the little pool below. someone said it was like a 90 ft waterfall. so i see everyone else on the other side of this little river before the waterfall. so i decide to join them. as i'm stepping on the stone to go across, i defintiely slipped and ate shit. and there i go into the stream. luckily it didn't hurt. i had expected myself to fall at some point during the day....i'm just glad i didn't really hurt myself. so i stand up and after someone asks if i'm ok and i start laughing....everyone starts clapping and i take my bow.

so our next mission was to go down to the bottom of the waterfall because some people wanted to go swimming. ok, so we decided to make our own trail and hike down this rocky trail. i'm basically crab-walking because i don't want to eat shit again. seriously, when they said they were going hiking, they should've said extreme hiking.

once we're at the bottom, some people are eating and some people are getting ready to go swimming. their was also another family there with a husband, wife, and two kids...which later i found out their names were Hunter and Fisher. what the fuck parents? AND the little boy was carrying a knife in this little side pouch around his waist. no no no, it wasn't a swiss army knife....but a fucking dagger.

anyway, the first guy jumps in the pool and is like, omg it's cold. about 6 people go in before and everyone says the same thing, omg it's cold. they swim to the other part of the pool, get out and are standing on some rocks with no other place to go but back in the water to the place where we had originally jumped in. so i had already decided that i would be pissed if i hiked all the way down this steep ass mountain and didn't go swimming. so i'm in my sports bra and underwear and dive in. first off, there go my underwear.

holy jesus...i thought i was going to die. if not for the children around i would've screamed holy fuck. the water was probably about 40 degrees and i was not expecting it to be THAT cold. so i'm in this freezing ass cold water trying to swim and pull up my panties at the same time. let's also keep in mind that i don't really know how to swim. i can get from point A to point B but i don't really know how to swim regularly. i tried to do a regular stroke and i probably looked retarded in front of all these people i just met for the first time. i finally made it to the other side of the pool and gladly got out. a couple people came in after me. then one by one we swam back. the second time wasn't so bad but it was still effing cold. and i still thought i may drown and no one would come in to save me because the water is too effing cold. that would suck.

so we all lay out on some big rocks and dry off. it was a GORGEOUS day. not too hot and not a cloud in the sky.

so the little boy goes up to his dad and says, "dad, it says "f-u-c-k-u" on that rock over there. so the dad goes over there, grabs a rock and starts hitting the other rock to rub off the writing. i thought that was kinda funny.

so we hike back up the mountain but this time we take the long way with a small incline. i like that a lot better than the steep stuff.

we get back up to our cars and decide it's time for apple pie. i'm very excited because i've always heard about it but have never had it. we went to julian pie company. it was pretty good. i really don't know if it was up to all the hype...but i would definitely go back.

hiking is fun! c and i were pretty impressed with ourselves. kinda sore now but that's ok.

all in all...a pretty damn good day. =)